"Cabaret," the Roundabout Theater Company's Tony Award-winning celebration of Weimar-era decadence, will close on Nov. 2 after more than five years, its producers announced yesterday. The show will have run for 2,306 performances and 37 previews.

Giant banners and armbands bearing the Nazi swastika can now be seen on two Chicago stages -- the Ford Center Oriental Theatre, where Mel Brooks' "The Producers" is in its national touring version, and at the Theatre Building, where Kander and Ebb's "Cabaret" is receiving a revival by Porchlight Music Theatre Chicago.

NEW YORK - This is it — the final cast for "Cabaret," now heading into its last weeks of a more than five-year New York run. The farewell performance for the Roundabout Theatre Company revival at Studio 54 will be Jan. 4.

Susan Egan (news), who was Broadway's original Belle in Disney's "Beauty and the Beast," will continue as English chanteuse Sally Bowles, while Adam Pascal (news), late of "Aida" and "Rent," plays the master of ceremonies at the decadent Kit Kat Klub.

Before the film came out in 1972, there were doubts about whether a musical with Nazis could work. Norris, who promises a new and edgy approach, said: "It's always been an unusual one. It doesn't have a straightforward girl-meets-boy love story, it doesn't have a happy ending. All the characters end up in some form of bitter compromise.

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